reconquest

1. (transitive, now rare) Synonym of reconquer.Examples: "Many excellente parſonages are condemned in Englande, beinge wholy reconqueſted to the Pope."; "The tables being taken vp, the Emperoꝛ pꝛaid the king of Theſſalie to retire himſelfe to the Queen his deare wife, ſéeing the time did then require to be a little together without any beholders to ſtand by. Whervnto he willingly accoꝛded, as well to gratifie him therein, as to quench the deſire which might ſtirre him foꝛward to reconqueſt the place, […]"; "There is no doubt that Ravenna, as an imperial capital (fifth century) and as the Byzantine provincial capital (sixth-seventh centuries), had its influence, whether it was through the Arianism introduced with the conquest of Theodoric, or through the influences of the Byzantine Empire after being reconquested by Belisarion the Byzantine until it fell to the Lombards in 751."Synonyms: reconquerarchaictransitive